Word: pious
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Salt Lake City, at the base of the splendid and snowy Wasatch mountains, placed a close second to Nagano, Japan, in the race to host the 1998 Winter Olympics. So the pious and dogged capital of Utah went back to work on its fifth bid in three decades...
...conscience was communal, standing in defense of the colorful and emotional piety of an England born of, and bound most preciously to, Catholic Christendom. It was to preserve those ties that More, the great humanist and loyal church reformer, debated the disloyal Protestants. It was to preserve his pious England that More enforced the ban on translations of the Bible into the incendiary vernacular, arguing that to "believe nothing but plain Scripture" was "pestilential heresy." There were more things than words to treasure in a London, as depicted by Ackroyd, full of Maypoles and processions and founts of sacredness...
...stick a fork into Ken Starr this week should be wary: the independent counsel has no place to go but up. Yes, the star witness at impeachment hearings will be forced to account for every questionable turn in his investigation of Monica Lewinsky. But Starr, often caricatured as a pious partisan out to ruin Bill Clinton at any cost, comes well trained for the contest...
...holiday scramble begin. And beware. While tweens might go for A Bug's Life, and pious adults line up for The Prince of Egypt, neither film will have the urgency of a small voice saying, over and over, "Take me to Rugrats!" In the Pickles family, as in nearly every other TV brood, the kids run things. The next few box-office weeks will determine whether the same applies to reel life...
...pair of 14-year-old identical twins, Leah and Adah, are the author's most vivid characters. Leah is a thoughtful, idealistic beauty who at first idolizes her father, then sees through his pious bluster. Adah, crippled at birth, is a wry, inward-turning genius who refuses to speak but silently reshapes the world in bitter palindromes: "amen enema," and "evil, all; its sin is still alive...